Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 47
“That was Kay,” cried Gerda, with a voice of delight.
Who acts: That, Kay · What happens: be, cry · To what, where: Kay, Gerda · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, Kay), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Kay | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Kay | cop |
| 4 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Kay | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Kay | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 voice | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 voice | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 voice | det |
| 12 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 delight | case |
| 14 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 voice | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | That | Kay | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Kay | Gerda | with a voice of delight | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gerda=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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